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Wes Davis

Wes Davis

Former Weekend Editor

Former Weekend Editor

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    Elon Musk says xAI’s chatbot will be an X subscriber exclusive.

    He says users will need a $16-a-month X Premium Plus subscription to access “Grok,” and that it will get real-time information from posts on X.

    Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI but left in 2018 over the company’s for-profit shift, and has called ChatGPT “WokeGPT.” He launched xAI earlier this year. Musk’s posts come a few days ahead of OpenAI’s first developer conference on Monday.

    Wes Davis
    Wes Davis
    I used to be an artist.

    I still have sketchbooks full of perspective and figure-drawing practice, experiments with comic book layouts, shading, endless sketches of my feet and hands.

    But somehow I never decided to just study how light works in a water droplet? This post from Apple design alum Michael Darius about the influence of Wes Modes’ “Anatomy of a Water Drop” on the Aqua design of Mac OS X has a fun scan to pore over.

    A Standard to Aspire To

    [skeuomorphic.design]

    Wes Davis
    Wes Davis
    Want to watch a live spacewalk right now?

    NASA is streaming it live on YouTube. It started at around 8AM ET today and was scheduled to last “about six-and-a-half hours,” so it should have about an hour or so left.

    This spacewalk is a first for Astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara, who are removing a box from a communications antenna and repairing one of the solar arrays.

    Wes Davis
    Wes Davis
    WeWork has fallen very far from its once-lofty perch.

    WeWork, a chaotic shared working space business that in early 2019 was considered valuable, to the tune of $47 billion, may be prepping for insolvency.

    The Wall Street Journal published a report today saying that WeWork, after defaulting on interest payments on October 2nd, is considering filing for bankruptcy. An unnamed spokesperson reportedly called it “speculation.”

    Wes Davis
    Wes Davis
    What do you do for Halloween when you’re already an astronaut?

    NASA has a bunch of pictures, going back to 2007, to answer just that. Here’s a gallery of my favorites.

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